Re: Follow external command output

On Friday, January 10, 2014 3:48:45 PM UTC-5, Benjamin Klein wrote:
> I know that I can right now do something like
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> Is there a way for me to have each new line of output from the command `echo`ed as a message as it occurs? This command takes some time to run and rather than wait for it to finish before seeing any output I'd like to be able to follow what it's doing as it goes.
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> Thanks!
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> Ben
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If I understand what you are asking, you can do this with

:!external --command

This will run "external --command" within the shell and when the command is finished, you can press enter to return to vim. Type ':help !' in vim for more information.

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